You’ve been cooped up all winter, and now you’re greeted with miserable early-spring fishing conditions. Don’t freak out. These expert game plans will help you rip monsters from the chilly, swollen murk.

Anglers the world over dream of different ways in which they might give it all up in order to fish day in and day out. Alan Peak got to that lucky position as a fishing guide in Colorado. Now he's living the life; read his story.